21 Notable alumni of
Osaka University of Arts
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The Osaka University of Arts is 327th in the world, 62nd in Asia, and 27th in Japan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 21 notable alumni from the Osaka University of Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Hideaki Anno
- Enrolled in the Osaka University of Arts
- Studied in 1980-1983
- Occupations
- actorvoice actormanaging directorfilm directoranimator
- Biography
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Hideaki Anno is a Japanese animator, filmmaker and actor. His most celebrated creation, the Evangelion franchise, has had a significant influence on the anime television industry and Japanese popular culture. Anno's style is defined by his postmodernist approach and the extensive portrayal of characters' thoughts and emotions, often through unconventional scenes presenting the mental deconstruction of those characters.
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Tadao Ando
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Tadao Ando is a Japanese autodidact architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism". He is the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize.
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Arata Furuta
- Occupations
- seiyūactor
- Biography
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Arata Furuta is a Japanese theatre and film character actor.
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Hisako, Princess Takamado
- Occupations
- children's writeraristocrattranslator
- Biography
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Hisako, Princess Takamado, is a member of the Japanese Imperial Family as the widow of Norihito, Prince Takamado.
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Koji Kondo
- Occupations
- sound designerpianistcomposer
- Biography
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Koji Kondo is a Japanese music composer, pianist, and sound director for the video game company Nintendo. He is best known for his many contributions to the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series of video games, among others produced by the company. Kondo was hired by Nintendo in 1984, becoming the first person hired by them to specialize in video game music. His work in the Mario and Zelda series have been cited as the most memorable in video games, such as the Super Mario Bros. overworld theme.
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Masami Okui
- Occupations
- composerradio personalityrecording artistDJ producersinger
- Biography
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Masami Okui is a Japanese singer and songwriter from Itami, Hyōgo. She began her professional musical career at age 21 as a concert backup singer. From almost the very beginning of her career, Masami has sung themes for anime television and movies. She is especially well known for her songs from Revolutionary Girl Utena, Tales of Eternia The Animation, Slayers, Sorcerer Hunters, Di Gi Charat, Magic User's Club, Jungle de Ikou!, Akihabara Dennou Gumi, Ray the Animation, He Is My Master and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. She has performed material for more than 50 singles and 20 albums to date (including her work with JAM Project and Chihiro Yonekura). Okui hosts @Tunes, an anime music news program, on the Japanese anime television network Animax.
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Fumito Ueda
- Occupations
- artistvideo game developer
- Biography
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Fumito Ueda is a Japanese video game designer. Ueda is best known as the director and lead designer of Ico (2001) and Shadow of the Colossus (2005) while leading Team Ico at Japan Studio, and The Last Guardian (2016) through his own development company GenDesign. His games have achieved cult status and are distinguished by their usage of minimal plot and scenario using fictional languages, and use of overexposed, desaturated light. He has been described by some as an auteur of video games.
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Takashi Tezuka
- Occupations
- computer scientistscreenwritervideo game producerprogrammer
- Biography
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Takashi Tezuka is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer. He is a senior officer in Nintendo's Entertainment Planning & Development division and is an Executive Officer at Nintendo itself.
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Koji Kanemoto
- Occupations
- stage actormanageractorprofessional wrestler
- Biography
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Kōji Kanemoto is a Japanese professional wrestler of Zainichi Korean descent. He has previously worked with New Japan Pro-Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling. He is currently a freelancer.
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Yoshiaki Koizumi
- Occupations
- game designercomputer scientist
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Yoshiaki Koizumi is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer, and business executive. He is a senior executive officer at Nintendo and a deputy general manager at Nintendo EPD, where he is known for his work within their Mario and The Legend of Zelda series, and as the General Producer of the Nintendo Switch. In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time.
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Hiroyuki Yamaga
- Occupations
- film directordirectorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Hiroyuki Yamaga is a Japanese anime director and producer, and a founding member of the animation studio Gainax. He is best known for directing the film Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987) at age 24, directing Mahoromatic (2001), Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (2002), and an episode of Gurren Lagann (2007). Yamaga also wrote the screenplay for Gundam 0080 (1989).
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Hidetaka Suehiro
- Occupations
- video game producer
- Biography
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Hidetaka Suehiro, known as SWERY or Swery65, is a Japanese video game director and writer. He was one of the founding members of the game development studio Access Games which is based in Osaka. His roles in the company included director, designer, and writer. He is the director of the games Spy Fiction, Deadly Premonition and D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die. He then left the company in 2016, and he founded his own studio, named White Owls Inc.
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Range Murata
- Occupations
- character designerdesignermangakaillustrator
- Biography
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Range Murata is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist, known for his unique style combining dieselpunk and Japanese anime elements. He is best known for his conceptual design work on anime series Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. 6.
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Yoshio Sakamoto
- Occupations
- computer scientistscreenwritervideo game producervideo game developer
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Yoshio Sakamoto is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer. He has worked at Nintendo since 1982. He has directed several games in the Metroid series. He is one of the most prominent members of Nintendo's former Research and Development 1 division, along with Gunpei Yokoi and Toru Osawa.
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Takami Akai
- Occupations
- animatorillustrator
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Takami Akai is an illustrator, game creator, character designer and animator born on November 21, 1961, in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, Japan.
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Hisashi Nogami
- Occupations
- designervideo game producervideo game developerdirector
- Biography
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Hisashi Nogami is a Japanese video game designer, director, and producer at Nintendo. He is best known as the creator of the Animal Crossing and Splatoon franchises.
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Kensuke Tanabe
- Occupations
- video game designervideo game producervideo game developervideo game director
- Biography
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Kensuke Tanabe is a Japanese video game producer and designer working for Nintendo, where he currently is Senior Officer at Nintendo EPD.
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Novala Takemoto
- Occupations
- fashion designernovelist
- Biography
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Novala Takemoto is the professional name of Toshiaki Takemoto (嶽本 稔明, Takemoto Toshiaki), a Japanese author, and fashion designer.
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Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
- Occupations
- film editorfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Kazuyoshi Kumakiri is a Japanese film director.
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Masahiko Minami
- Occupations
- television producerfilm producer
- Biography
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Masahiko Minami is a Japanese anime producer and president of Bones.
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Takeshi Yamada
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Takeshi Yamada is a Japanese-American artist and rogue taxidermist.
